Icy wastes – Fieldsports Extra, episode 264
Paul and David are in Lapland, you can still win a day’s shooting for one gun on 3 November 2023 at Gwysaney Sporting in North Wales. Plus, more on the trophy import ban, this time from Sir Bill Wiggin MP, and the guys from Browning go out after red stags at the end of last […]
Soggy squirrel shoot
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oDCCOxLxhc Geoff Garrod has his work cut out finding squirrels to shoot on the land he gamekeepers. He knows they are there but, sensibly, they are staying out of the rain, leaving Geoff wet and squirrel-less – well, nearly. For Browning, visit Browning.eu For Eley Hawk, go to Bit.ly/eleyhawk For Browning Maxus 2 semi-autos for […]
Shoot sabs: what to do when they hit
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xav62AFmZHsWhen sabs hit your shoot, what do you do? That’s what happened when we were out filming a shoot day. Former Metropolitan Police detective Ian Jensen and BASC spokesman Gareth Dockerty give their advice. Download the shoot sabs card here Click here for more information on your legal rights, what to do if confronted by […]
Fieldsports Britain – thugs on a pheasant shoot
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfLRVu8yvXU Two sabs armed with whips and chemical sprays stopped a shoot where we were filming. They had been looking for a hunt to disrupt, but they heard shooting so followed the sound. It only takes two to stop the 20-50 people out shooting from having their day. So what do you do about it […]
Game meat fuels top restaurant’s success
youtu.be/Q8zEiKRmRQA by Deborah Hadfield Game meat, venison and duck are helping a Cornish restaurant fly high. The magazine Condé Nast Traveller voted the Ugly Butterfly at Carbis Bay Hotel one of the top restaurants in the UK. Part of its success is sourcing game locally. Head chef Connor Blades says they source their meat from […]
Which airgun calibre? .22 or .177?
youtu.be/QUxYU5bz4AE It’s the age-old question. Which airgun calibre is best, .22 or .177? South-west of England Field Target Association champion James Head, of Crackshot UK, says it’s largely a matter of personal preference. “The two calibres are equally accurate. There’s no reason why they shouldn’t be,” he explains. “The difference is that the .177 flies […]
British shooting success – Fieldsports News, 15 March 2023
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B8tgImcwd0 Here are the links: Shooters on target for medals – British Shooting African countries warn that British trophy ban will backfire – The Times + Instagram Scientists criticise Nature.Scot’s £2 billion private finance deal – Herald Scotland + Nature.scot Welsh springer wins Crufts gamekeeper classes – BASC Ancient Scottish hunt closes – Facebook Confusion […]
Win a peg on a shoot priced at £1,100 – Fieldsports Extra, episode 263
You can win a day’s shooting for one gun on 3 November 2023 at Gwysaney Sporting in North Wales – and we will film you for Fieldsports Channel. Plus, Charlie has updates on the trophy import ban, the move to ban shooting in Wales and the antis’ attempt to put shotguns on section 1 of […]
Why Henry Smith MP’s trophy imports bill is already obsolete.
youtu.be/Wg_zdppx9eg by Deborah Hadfield Would you like a lion in your living room? You won’t be breaking any laws if you do – not even the upcoming private member’s bill by MP Henry Smith in Westminster to ban the import of hunting trophies. These lions are flawless, realistic fakes. They can be designed to be […]
How to square veganism with hunting – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 70
youtu.be/5TvPZ2vx3Ss Charlie chats to artist and not-very-vegan Katie Hargreaves, who is squaring her green beliefs with her keenness to go hunting and source her own meat. For more from Katie, visit KatieHargreavesArt.com Other ways to listen to our podcasts:
Epic African carp fishing
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGRtNccwrjQ Charlie is fishing for carp on the fly in South Africa. He is on the Vanderkloof Dam, one of the biggest bodies of water in southern Africa, where the carp herd to the edge of the lake to feast on caterpillars. For fishing at Vanderkloof, visit Selous.co.za More fishing here:
Shooting foxes off a carp pond
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPKCqaf2jo0 Foxes eat all manner of wildlife and rubbish. This is the first time that Paul Childerley has found them devouring koi carp from a carp pond. Armed with his Sako S20, he is out to discourage them. For more about Sako, go to Sako.fi Find Paul on Instagram and Facebook More from Paul:
Fieldsports Britain – Paul’s fish-munching fox problem
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll5FGITTqFA Paul faces an unusual fox problem. The animals are stealing koi carp from a pond and the owner wants Paul to shoot them. He sets out with a thermal scope on his Sako rifle to do just that. Charlie is in South Africa, chasing after carp with his fly rod. And Deborah uncovers a […]
Urbanisation forces hunt to close – Fieldsports News, 8 March 2023
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd913-UdG7M Here are the links: Ancient hunt to disband – BBC Bluefin tuna CHART programme to continue – Angling Trust Appeal for shooters to lobby Welsh Government – GWCT National Trust bans grouse shooting on Peak District estate – The Star Fears of anti-shooting bias in Attenborough wildlife series – Twitter Anglers celebrate National Trust […]
How to renew your Fieldsports Nation Membership
If you sign up as an annual member of the Fieldsports Nation your membership will automatically renew each year, unless you select otherwise or choose to cancel. Monthly subscriptions will renew automatically for 12 months and then you will need to sign up again.Renewing your membership is easy. You can do it from a desktop […]
Win a £195 tweed gilet – Fieldsports Extra, episode 262
You can win a tweed reviersible gilet from Pin Piuma priced at £195. Plus, Cathy Mayne talks about hunting trophies and Charlie is in hot water in South Africa.This week’s prizes and other links:Shooterking Pin PiumaWest Highland Hunting Packham case on Fieldsports NewsSelous Flyfishing Camp Skiing cockerels How to enter Fieldsports Nation competitions: for members on YouTube, Patreon […]
Scottish vs Swedish salmon fishing
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMfkCemLIeo The River Kalix is one of Swedish Lapland’s premier salmon rivers – and that’s where Niall Rowantree goes to try for a fish. Unlike Scotland, there are plenty of fish in this river. To book a fishing trip or a holiday, check out Jockfall.com For more info about Swedish Lapland, go to HeartofLapland.com […]
Roy’s Portuguese boar hunt
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNnZIPJacas When it comes to fast-action shooting on driven big game hunts, Roy Lupton is one of the UK’s top shots. He goes to a Portuguese montería to try his hand at speedy wild boar, and finds out what it takes to put on a huge and complex hunt. For Tikka rifles, go to […]
Fieldsports Britain – driven wild *porco* 🐗
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rdhe6U48Do We’re hunting and fishing in northern and southern Europe this week. Roy Lupton has a multi-day montería in Portugal to enjoy, with wild boar a-go-go. Meanwhile, Niall Rowantree is in Lapland fishing for salmon, loving it, and explaining how he has given up on salmon in Scotland. Also in Scotland, the Assynt Crofters are […]
Battle of Quinag in Scottish Highlands heats up
youtu.be/FC7htDJhXDw by Deborah Hadfield Crofters in the Scottish Highlands are asking: ‘Is it a cull too far?’ as the John Muir Trust uses out-of-season licences to shoot deer at night on the Quinag estate. The Assynt Crofters Trust, or ACT, depends on the animals for its commercial deer stalking operation. Now it plans forcibly to […]
New gun law threat – Fieldsports News, 1 March 2023
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtC-lES94pk Here are the links: Fieldsports groups lobby ministers to protect gun laws – Countryside Alliance Poachers banned from owning dogs – FarmingUK MPs debate shortening woodcock season – Hansard No UK release plans for wolves and lynx – Guardian Sabs criticise police over trailhunter PC – BBC Holy Island fish victory – Daily Mail […]
Win £160 of Shooterking clothing – Fieldsports Extra, episode 261
You can win a Moorland jacket and Moorland trousers from Shooterking priced at £160. Plus, Charlie is in the USA at the Safari Club International convention, Roy is in Portugal and Niall Rowantree is in Lapland, Birmingham and Tennessee. My, that man gets around.This week’s prizes and other links:Best Fox Call IcoTec Rascal websiteShooterking Serious Country […]
What’s the best rimfire rifle in 2023?
Rimfire rifles are still as popular as ever, says Ian Hodge of West Country gunshop and online retailer Ian Hodge Fieldsports – and his two best sellers are the semi-auto Ruger 10-22 and the Browning T-Bolt. The Ruger is in .22 calibre, while he picks a T-Bolt in .17HMR. Both are relatively short in the […]
PoIitician or PH: who’s the conservation hero?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6blO_hSfhOs by Charlie Jacoby In the wild Northern Cape of South Africa, professional hunter Ben-Mari du Plessis is doing all she can to keep her herd of sable antelope alive. In the Palace of Westminster, 8,000 miles away, a politician in the British government, Rebecca Pow, is trying to stop her. Ben-Mari and her family […]
How not to roost-shoot pigeons
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHVAYffKgO4 It could have been superb – but Dan Thor is having a bad day. The pigeons are flocking into the wood where they roost in Essex. However, there’s no wind. They are coming in too high. Here’s how he copes with a pigeon roost-shoot day going wrong. For Browning and Miroku guns go […]
Firearms licensing in the spotlight at the British Shooting Show
by Deborah Hadfield Shooters came face to face with firearms licensing officers at the British Shooting Show. Officers from three police forces, Devon & Cornwall, West Mercia, and Warwickshire went to the 2023 event in Birmingham to meet shooters. The police staff were there to help with variations and offer practical advice on how to […]
Call for shotguns to go on FACs – Fieldsports News, 22 February 2023
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPt5csr7YxU Here are the links: Call for shotguns to go on FACs – Guardian Police investigate after sab hit by horse – BBC Court rules that being an anti is ‘religion’ – Guardian Kent anglers defend a moat – petition Wildcats to be released in Devon & Cornwall – BBC Gamekeepers welcome muirburn – research […]
How to film a big game hunt
Charlie Jacoby is with a professional hunter from the Northern Cape Professional Hunting School. Edwin Corney is turning his hand to filming and Charlie is training him to film for Fieldsports Channel. Here’s how he gets on during a sable antelope hunt.Click here for more from the Northern Cape Professional Hunting School Here’s the film […]
Fieldsports Britain – Dan Thor’s pigeon predicament
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGuurozMuw8 It was all looking so good. The pigeons are pouring into the wood, the guns are spread out, but Dan Thor is about to have one of the worst roost-shooting outings of his shooting career. Find out what goes wrong in this week’s #FieldsportsBritain. Plus, Charlie is in South Africa asking why London politicians […]
Win a fox caller priced at £99 – Fieldsports Extra, episode 260
You can win an IcoTec Rascal foxcaller from Best Fox Call priced at £99. Plus the latest on Chris Packham’s proposed court case against us, how the British Shooting went, with a police firearms enquiry officer explaining himself, and Charlie is training a new cameraman in Africa.This week’s prizes and other links:Bailey’s Shooting & Countrywear […]
British government’s back-door ban on shooters who have lived abroad
youtu.be/UCAqHqCM5yw The government’s new policy of granting gun certificates on production of medical records is penalising people who have lived abroad and don’t have medical records. Charlie Jacoby meets two people like that at the 2023 British Shooting Show. David Taylor is a British citizen who has lived his life in South Africa, where doctors […]
British Shooting Show 2023 – for gun collectors
Did you think the 2023 British Shooting Show is only all about shiny, new kit? There’s plenty there for the gun collector, too. Charlie Jacoby chats to Diggory Hadoke from VintageGuns.co.uk about what he found.
Avon Vale Hunt expelled over video – Fieldsports News, 15 February 2023
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT5uZchuvGc Here are the links: Avon Vale Hunt incident – BHSA RSPB cash for dog training – Welsh Government BASC fight lead airgun pellet ban – BASC Fieldsports excluded from national recreation strategy – Countryside Alliance Sabs slam vegans for supporting RSPB & WWF – Vegan Markets Elon Musk reinstates Senator’s Twitter after hunting photos […]
Saudi falcon racing
youtu.be/hjpTuxWaD7A Saudi Arabia is mad about falcon racing – so much so they’ve built a huge stadium to host it in the middle of the desert. We join a GB falcon racing team as they put on an exhibition event showing off a new style of simulated hunt racing, developed in the UK by Dr. […]
Scientists warn trophy hunting ban would be ‘catastrophic’
youtu.be/yX-IFKZ6_zI On the hunt in Africa: Ed Sargeant is a Brit and new to hunting in Africa. Guided by trainee professional hunters from the Northern Cape Professional Hunting School in South Africa, he is out for his first stalk. Ed says: “We saw a small group of springboks. We followed them, but they just kept […]
Fieldsports Britain – Shooting long range gongs and deer
youtu.be/Ez3lp4FzZd4 Paul Childerley needs to cull Chinese water deer in a field so big he can’t stalk close enough. Perhaps Zeiss ambassador and PRS shooter Andy Simpson-Nix can help – and convince him to give PRS competition a go too. We’re in Saudi Arabia to see how British falcons compete in a race under the […]
Best spring air rifle: Air Arms TX200 vs Weihrauch HW97
They’re two of the finest spring-powered air rifles ever made – but which is the best, the Air Arms TX200 or the Weihrauch HW97? James Head of Crackshot UK, the Devon and online airgun centre, is in no doubt. “There’s pros and cons for both and in the end it comes down to personal choice, […]
Government to pay shooters to kill foxes
youtu.be/AKZr3ixPnvY Managing predators is a daily battle for farmers, gamekeepers and landowners. Now the government signals it will recognise this effort and pay shooters for the work. It doesn’t say when or how much, but it includes predator control in the latest round of proposed farm subsidies. Foxshooter Mike Dickinson, who runs Calton Moor Range […]
Scouts learn about wild game and shooting
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC57YSGhcK8 Fieldsports Nation member Dave Hays has a simple mission: to introduce Scout groups to wild game. It’s a way of reconnecting kids with nature and he is touring the South-East of England’s Scout groups to do it. Find your local Scout group at scouts.org.uk
Ollie Williams hosts a shoot day after falling off a balcony ❤️🏝️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZHqFnpzTtA It might be the end of the driven shooting season but it’s Ollie Williams’ first day back after a serious injury. He is hosting a shoot day with the help of two walking sticks, following an accident before Christmas where he fell off a balcony in Germany. He explains all that and has time […]
Fieldsports Britain – Ollie’s shooting pain
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkfJQf_Agzw Ollie Williams is disabled – it’s short-term, and it’s not stopping him from hosting a shoot day at home in Cornwall. We join him and friends to see how he copes on sticks. Meanwhile, Fieldsports Nation member Dave Hays has a mission to introduce Scout groups to wild game. He explains how he takes […]
Spitting sab convicted of assault – Fieldsports News, 8 February 2023
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCdhr_qK9uk Here are the links: Spitting sab convicted of assault – www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11705067/Saboteur-Boxing-Day-hunt-SPITS-woman-vowing-p-graves-riders.html Bird flu spreads to other mammals – www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-64474594 Exmoor red deer TB link to cattle – link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10344-022-01638-y Autumnwatch cancelled after Packham steps back – fieldsportschannel.tv/packhamcase Study looks at reintroducing black grouse to Sussex – www.birdguides.com/news/plans-to-reintroduce-black-grouse-to-sussex/ Welsh snares ban will harm threatened species – […]
Win a Spartan bipod priced at £289 – Fieldsports Extra, episode 258
You can win a Spartan bipod priced at £289, kindly donated by Baileys Shooting & Countrywear. Plus the latest on Chris Packham’s proposed court case against us, we go to the Hunting Kind one-day conference, member Dave Hayes is on a mission to teach Scouts about British game, and there’s good news for crow and […]
PCP airgun outfit for under £500 – is it any good?
Thinking of upgrading to a pre-charged pneumatic airgun? Good choice – but won’t that cost you something north of £1,000? Not necessarily, says Matt Clay at Shooting Sports UK, the Staffordshire and online gun shop. He’s offering a complete PCP outfit for under £500. It’s built around the Stoeger XM1, a smart, modern looking pre-charged […]
British Shooting Show 2023 preview – #BSS2023
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ8Vc2tXZ48 We preview the Great British Shooting Show at the NEC, Birmingham, on 17-19 February 2023. Click here for British Shooting Show tickets Crackshot offer More from the British Shooting Show here:
Battle over ‘tax break trees’
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4MgUB35duE A Scottish estate covered in Fieldsports News has sold for £10.5 million to a rewilding company. Highlands Rewilding bought the Tayvallich Estate in Argyll. It raised part of the money through crowdfunding. The new owner says it plans to restore the 3,500-acre estate’s ‘natural environment’. It already owns two Scottish estates, Bunloit in Inverness-shire […]
Fabulous end-of-season pheasants at the Brent Pelham shoot, with Dan Thor
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOHlDKBG7F4 What a way to end the pheasant-shooting season. Dan Thor is out with friends from the beaters’ line shooting driven birds at the Brent Pelham shoot in Hertfordshire – all the usual suspects plus more. The birds are flying well, the weather is bright and it all makes you look forward to next season. […]
Fieldsports Britain – beaters’ big day
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I9XvkqH9kY It’s Dan Thor’s beaters’ day – the big day for all the people who have put hard work into the pheasant season producing wonderful birds for guns, when they get to shoot the birds themselves. Find out how he gets on at Brent Pelham in Hertfordshire. We also preview the British Shooting Show, and […]
DEFRA works out that pheasants breed but once a year… duh – Fieldsports News, 1 February 2023
www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4h9uBaKbd0 Here are the links: EU and UK agree new bird flu trade regs – AimtoSustain Scottish Government licenses hunting – Scottish Gamekeepers Association + Countryside Alliance Edinburgh plans to ‘go vegan’ – Farmers’ Weekly UK trophy ban bill next stage – Westminster Parliament Hunt confronts antis over spraying citronella – YouTube Record number of […]
Win £145 of Elevenses Distillery gin – Fieldsports Extra, episode 257
You can win four bottles of Elevenses Distillery gin priced at £145. Plus the latest on Chris Packham’s proposed court case against us, Gareth Wyn Jones talks about the perils of ignoring traditional landowners, we have a story about a dragon and I hand over a box of booze to wildfowler Andy Peake. This week’s […]
